Netbooks have been one of the surprise successes over the last year. They have also been one of the most contentious areas of computing.
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Debian Founder Murdock Now Sun's Cloud Strategist
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Debian Linux founder and former OpenSolaris chief Ian Murdock is taking over the role of chief strategist for cloud computing at Sun Microsystems.
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Is Linux at the Precipice or at the Crossroads?
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Those of you who follow the state of Linux may realize that Linux is now at the precipice or "jumping off place" as an operating system. Linux, to others, is viewed as being at the crossroads for success. What's the difference, for Linux, in teetering at the precipice and standing at the crossroads?
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Canonical’s “Ubuntu 8.10 4GB Flash Drive”
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the Canonical Store’s description says, “This new and improved USB Flash drive not only comes with Ubuntu 8.10 pre-loaded, but can also hold a whopping 4GB of data that can be transferred to virtually any USB equipped machine. Who could say no?”. And indeed, he couldn’t say no, and bought one. Let’s have three cheers for that decision! :)
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Healthcheck: OpenOffice
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The purchase of StarDivision, the makers of StarOffice, a German office "productivity suite", by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The subsequent release to the free software community of the StarOffice code, in the shape of OpenOffice, came as a surprise to many.
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Zapping in Ubuntu
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One of the many changes in xserver 1.6 is switching the DontZap option's default so that the ctrl-alt-backspace option does not trigger X to terminate unless the user deliberately configures it to do so.
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How To: Build A Read-Only Linux System
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There seem to be a lot of people out there looking to run a custom application
on a Linux-based platform running on a solid-state storage device. From time to
time, we receive questions from customers looking to make their Linux platforms
read-only in order to maximize the longevity of their flash devices. I thought
EnterpriseDB and Sun Reaping Benefits from Open Source Databases
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There were new metrics out this week for both EnterpriseDB's PostgreSQL-centric database business, and Sun Microsystems' MySQL business. These players are at the forefront of challenging pricing for databases and surrounding services from competitors such as Oracle, and both are having strong success with strategies focused on open source databases.
Read more »The Bizarre Cathedral - 38
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc and crimperman
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Brilliant Brainstorms #45 - Window Shades
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Brilliant Brainstorms is a (usually) weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. This week: workspace confusion; optimizing screen real-estate on netbooks; Wubi for Ubuntu Netbook Remix; and giving nautilus folder differentiation.
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Podcast: Fonality’s CEO On Asterisk, Open Source And IP PBXes
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In today’s episode, Fonality CEO Chris Lyman discusses Asterisk, open source, the IP PBX market and Fonality’s partner strategy. More specifically, The VAR Guy Live: Podcast covers the following five key topics…
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LGP Is Now Porting Shadowgrounds: Survivor
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These two games were supposed to be released for Linux (they are already available for Windows platforms) by last Spring, but that never came to fruition... Now it appears that Linux Game Publishing has been involved with porting Shadowgrounds: Survivor to Linux.
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Even Microsoft's anti-Linux message isn't this bad
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This anti-Linux Microsoft "ad" hit the Web a few weeks ago, but I just came across it last night and thought it was funny.
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Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin
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This guide shows how you can create USB startup disks (on your USB flash drive) from various Linux distributions with UNetbootin. This is useful if you want to install a Linux distribution on a computer that has no CD/DVD drive.
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KDE 4.2: I'm tired of Pundits, Here's MY Take
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So I am writing this rant on the eve of the release of KDE 4.2, and in the face of interviews from Linus Torvalds stating that he abandoned KDE after the 4.0 release, and partially in response to Steven Vaugh-Nichols negatively equating 4.2 to Windows 7.
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